Lesson video

Hi everyone, Ms. Fryer here back for lesson four of our Anansi and Tiger action unit.

In lesson three, we role played as the python, the tiger, and the queen bee to get into our head the different actions Anansi takes against them.

I also asked you to help me answer some spider trivia.

I asked you how big of an orb-shaped web a Darwin's bark spider could weave.

They also make the longest webs in the world, but how big of an orb did you think? Do you think the orb could fit in a mug? Do you think that the orb could fit a chair in it? Do you think it could fit your whole sofa in it? Well, let me tell you that the orb-shaped web of a Darwin's bark spider can span up to 2.

8 metres square.

30 feet square, 30 square feet.

I don't know about you guys, but that would be bigger than my bathroom.

A spider web.

That is a super huge web.

Wow.

We're going to start today with a song.

Then we're going to do some new learning about our grammar for today.

Then we're going to do some shared writing before you do some independent writing of your own.

In this lesson, you will need an exercise book or paper, a pencil, and your brain.

So pause the video now if you need to get any of those things.

We're going to start today with a song that we learnt in lesson three.

I promised that I would teach you more of it.

Do you remember I taught you the chorus yesterday? It goes, ♪ Anansi the Spider ♪ ♪ He was full of tricks ♪ ♪ Anansi the Spider, ♪ ♪ Always full of tricks ♪ Can you sing that for me? Hopefully you remember from lesson three.

Off we go.

♪ Anansi the Spider ♪ ♪ He was full of tricks ♪ ♪ Anansi the Spider, ♪ ♪ Always full of tricks ♪ Very good.

Okay, right, this first verse then.

This first verse is about Tiger and his actions with Anansi.

It goes, now Tiger had all the stories.

♪ Now Tiger had all the stories ♪ Sing that for me.

♪ Now Tiger had all the stories ♪ Very good.

Then we have, ♪ Anansi asked to have them, please ♪ Can you try that for me? ♪ Anansi asked to have them, please ♪ Good.

♪ Tiger said he would swap them ♪ Your turn.

♪ Tiger said he would swap them ♪ What would he swap them for? ♪ A big python and a box of bees ♪ Try that for me.

♪ A big python and a box of bees ♪ So altogether it goes, ♪ Now Tiger had all the stories ♪ ♪ Anansi asked to have them, please ♪ ♪ Tiger said he would swap them ♪ ♪ For a big python and a box of bees ♪ Can you try and sing it all the way through with me? Off we go.

♪ Now Tiger had all the stories ♪ ♪ Anansi asked to have them, please ♪ ♪ Tiger said he would swap them ♪ ♪ For a big python and a box of bees ♪ Good.

I think we can sing that with our Anansi the Spider, he was full of tricks, Anansi the Spider, always full of tricks before it and after it.

Do you think we can do that? Okay.

Maybe click or clap on those choruses.

♪ Anansi the Spider ♪ ♪ He was full of tricks ♪ ♪ Anansi the Spider ♪ ♪ Always full of tricks.

♪ So click or clap along with the choruses and we'll do the actions on the verses, okay? Off we go.

One, two, three, ♪ Anansi the Spider ♪ ♪ He was full of tricks ♪ ♪ Anansi the Spider ♪ ♪ Always full of tricks.

♪ ♪ Now Tiger had all the stories ♪ ♪ Anansi asked to have them, please ♪ ♪ Tiger said he would swap them ♪ ♪ For a big python and a box of bees ♪ ♪ Anansi the Spider ♪ ♪ He was full of tricks ♪ ♪ Anansi the Spider ♪ ♪ Always full of tricks.

♪ Very good.

Let's do one more verse today and I'll teach you the other two verses in a later lesson.

So the next verse says, Anansi said to the queen bee.

Can we do that? ♪ Anansi said to the queen bee ♪ Your turn.

♪ Anansi said to the queen bee ♪ ♪ You can't all get in the barrel ♪ Can you sing that? ♪ You can't all get in the barrel ♪ ♪ Queen bee said, "Oh yes, we can." ♪ Can you do that? ♪ Queen bee said, "Oh yes, we can." ♪ ♪ Bees all went in and the lid slammed down ♪ Can you sing that? ♪ Bees all went in and the lid slammed down ♪ Good, and then we get back to, ♪ Anansi the Spider ♪ So, I'll sing the verse and then you can see if you can do it with me.

Join in if you remember the actions.

So, ♪ Anansi said to the queen bee ♪ ♪ You can't all get in the barrel ♪ ♪ Queen bee said, "Oh yes, we can." ♪ ♪ Bees all went in and the lid slammed down ♪ ♪ Anansi the Spider ♪ ♪ He was full of tricks ♪ ♪ Anansi the Spider ♪ ♪ Always full of tricks ♪ Amazing.

I think we can do the chorus, that first verse, then the chorus again, the second verse, and then the chorus again.

So three choruses, two verses.

That's very tricky.

I'll do it with you, so copy me if you get lost.

Don't worry.

If you get the actions mixed up, I might do as well.

It's totally fine.

Okay.

Are you ready? Let's start off with Anansi the tiger.

Anansi the tiger? Anansi the Spider.

That would be a very different story.

Okay, off we go, and, ♪ Anansi the Spider ♪ ♪ He was full of tricks ♪ ♪ Anansi the Spider ♪ ♪ Always full of tricks.

♪ ♪ Now Tiger had all the stories ♪ ♪ Anansi asked to have them, please ♪ ♪ Tiger said he would swap them ♪ ♪ For a big python and a box of bees ♪ ♪ Anansi the Spider ♪ ♪ He was full of tricks ♪ ♪ Anansi the Spider ♪ ♪ Always full of tricks.

♪ ♪ And Anansi said to the queen bee ♪ ♪ You can't all get in the barrel ♪ ♪ Queen bee said, "Oh yes, we can." ♪ ♪ Bees all went in and the lid slammed down ♪ ♪ Anansi the Spider ♪ ♪ He was full of tricks ♪ ♪ Anansi the Spider ♪ ♪ Always full of tricks.

♪ That was brilliant.

Really good singing.

There are a lot of fast words in that song, isn't there? Lots of fast words.

Really good job if you managed to keep up with me.

Amazing.

Now it's time for some new learning.

We're going to try some grammar work today.

It's going to be about the conjunction and.

We use and to join two sentences or clauses, which is like a part of a sentence, together into one big sentence.

This helps us add extra detail, which is something that is really important and part of our action writing toolkit.

Here are two sentences from our story.

The first one, let's get our reading finger ready, says, Anansi decided to trick Tiger and went to his cave.

That word and in the middle joins two ideas together.

The idea about Anansi deciding to trick Tiger, and him going into his cave.

It goes together.

We've added some extra detail to the sentence about him tricking the tiger.

He decides also to go to his cave.

So we join them together with and.

There we go.

Let's read the next one.

"You can stretch your neck and prove you are the longest." There's Anansi, in his own words, adding the word and to join two ideas together.

The idea about stretching his neck, the python's neck, and proving he is the longest, putting them together and adding extra detail to what he's saying to the python.

That word and is really, really important.

I've got a challenge for you here.

I wonder if you can join some of these short sentences together to make a longer one with the word and.

Conjunctions are really helpful for joining.

So see if you can join them together.

The sentences on the left hand side, the left on here, let's read them.

It says, the bees flew, Python stretched out, and Tiger was fed up.

We need to match those, join them with and to the sentences on this side underneath me.

Let's read them.

He made a deal.

Anansi shut the lid.

Anansi tied its tail.

Hmm, so, see if you can join up the sentences on the left using the conjunction and with the sentences on the right.

Pause the video to have a go.

Did you manage to join up those sentences? Let's see what you managed.

Did you find this one? Let's read these together following the pink lines.

The bees flew in and Anansi shut the lead.

That's the sentence, isn't it? That we've joined together with and.

The bees flew in and Anansi shut the lid.

They are both the actions that are happening.

Let's have a look at another one.

How about, the python stretched out and Anansi tied it's tail.

Those go together.

Let's have a look at the last one then.

Tiger was fed up and he made a deal.

Tiger was fed up and he made a deal.

They go together.

We add the extra detail to the sentence about Tiger being fed up.

Good job if you got those.

Now it's time for us to do some shared writing.

We're going to use our new knowledge about the conjunction and to write some of our own actions sentences.

When we are writing today, we want to make sure that we are following our toolkit, writing action that is clear.

We describe the actions of characters so that it's clear what happening at a suitable pace.

That means we're not rushing to the end, but also not spending a long time on one thing that doesn't really matter.

We do this by writing three different things.

And they're all things from our Action that is Clear song.

We write what happened in a clear order.

That's our step by step bit of my song.

We've also got where and when.

Where and when, just like in the song.

Describe where the action is happening and when it's happening, or does it happen after or before? And the last one it's about adjectives that add detail.

Adjectives are describing words.

They tell you what something is like.

So if one of the characters is doing something, we can say how they're doing it and what that action is like with adjectives.

So I want to think of two actions sentences, sentences that happen to characters in the story.

I think because we learned the verses in the song today about things that happened to the tiger and things that happened to the queen bee, that's what I'm going to base my sentences on today.

Let's start off with the tiger because he comes into the story first.

Let's think, what does the tiger do in the story? Actions are all about doing words.

So what does the tiger do? Tell your screen.

Well, I remember.

He prowls, doesn't he? He prowls out of his cave.

So I think I'm going to make that the start of my sentence.

Tiger prowled out of his cave.

Can we tap it out? Tiger prowled out of his cave.

On your shoulders.

Tiger prowled out of his cave.

On your nose.

Tiger prowled out of his cave.

On your fingers.

Tiger prowled out of his cave.

How many words? Six.

Tiger, capital letter for the start of the sentence and his name.

T.

I, slitty, g, r.

Tiger.

P, r, ow, O-W, ow, l, and then ed for past tense.

Prowled out, out, sight word.

Of, O-F spells of.

Prowled out of his, his cave, cave.

Now, what is our conjunction joining word we're going to use today? And.

Tiger prowled out of his cave and.

So let's think of another action that he does that we can join with this one.

Tiger prowled out of his cave.

What else did he do? Tell your screen, have a think.

I remember.

He growled at Anansi.

I think I'm going to make that the second part of my sentence.

Tiger prowled out of his cave and growled at Anansi.

Growled at Anansi.

Three words.

Growled rhymes with prowled.

Almost the same letters.

G, r, ow, l, ed for past tense.

Growled at.

At Anansi.

This is one of our key words.

I hope we can all spell Anansi by the end.

A, so that's our first name.

N, a, n, s, and e sound on the Anansi, it starts with an i.

Growled at Anansi.

And at the end we need a full stop.

Tiger prowled out of his cave and growled at Anansi.

That joining word and joins our two actions together.

He prowled out of his cave and he growled at Anansi.

Two different actions that we've joined together.

Very, very good.

Right.

Let's see if we can write one about the queen bee.

I'm thinking of our song.

And I think one of the lines in the song would be perfect for my sentence.

It's not about the queen bee, but it is about the bees.

It's about how the bees ♪ Flew in and the lid slammed down.

♪ It's got that word and right there.

The bees flew in is one action, and the lid slammed down, that's the second action.

I'm going to join those together in my sentence.

So, the bees flew in.

That's the first part of my sentence.

The bees flew in.

Can you say it? The bees flew in.

Let's write it.

Capital letter for my sight word the.

T-H-E spells of the.

The.

The bees, the bees flew.

Flew.

for the sound E-W.

It says, ew, like something's really gross.

The bees flew in.

Now we are in our joining word.

And, conjunction and.

And, and.

The bees flew in and, what else happened? The lid slammed down.

Let's write that.

The lid slammed down.

How many words? Four.

And the, T-H-E, lid, lid, slammed, there's a double letter in this word.

Ed for past tense, slammed down.

Finishing with a full stop.

Let's read the sentence together, shall we? The bees flew in and the lid slammed down, just like in our song.

Two actions put together with that conjunction and.

Now it's time for you to have a go at some independent writing.

Add some new information to your sentences using the conjunction and, and make sure you make the actions clear.

I've done a sentence about the tiger and one about the queen bee.

So why don't you try one about the python.

I've given you a sentence starter to use if you would like to.

How about using Anansi went to Python and.

Could you add some extra detail to that sentence by continuing it on? Maybe then you could try one of your own, or just do two of your own.

It's up to you.

Pause the video now to complete your task.

Now that you have written your sentences, it's time for us to five-finger check them.

Five-finger checking is super important to make sure that our sentences are as perfect as they can be.

What we should be doing is using our five-finger check for everything we write.

We make sure that we are using a capital letter at the start of our sentence and for any names such as Anansi, Tiger, and Python.

How about then checking for finger spaces? There should be a finger space in between every word you write.

Then check your spellings.

You might have some spellings from ones that I've given you.

You might want to sound out some words again, or they might be tricky sight words that you just have to remember.

Make sure all of your sentences have got a full stop at the end so that we know the sentence has finished.

And lastly, read your sentence through out loud to make sure it makes sense.

Make sure you've read what you've actually written and not what you think you've read by checking carefully and following along with your finger.

You might have missed out some little words or changed a word so it doesn't make sense.

Let's have a practise together, shall we? I've written a sentence earlier and I wondered if we could five-finger check it to make sure it's okay.

So, my sentence with my reading finger goes, I'll get you two things and you give stories.

Pretty good, right? I'll get you two things and you give stories.

And what do you mean something's missing? Okay.

Let's go for our five-finger check.

Let's see if we can add something else to make it better.

Oh, straight away that's better.

I've added a capital letter and now it already looks better.

What else can we add to make it better? There's a full stop on the end.

So we've got a capital letter at the start and a full stop at the end.

Now it's a proper sentence.

But I wonder if it can be better.

Finger spaces.

There wasn't a finger space in between every word.

Now there is.

Oh, I'd written the sound f rather than th for things.

I know it's got to be a T-H 'cause I use my t, tongue.

Things.

So I've got to use a T-H.

That's a spelling that I needed to check.

Oh, I'll get two things and you give me stories.

I'd missed out a little word so it didn't really make sense.

Now I've added it in, it's much better.

Shall we read it through together? I'll get you two things and you give me stories.

That's the sentence there.

An action sentence with that conjunction and in the middle.

And now it's perfect.

Pause the video now to five-finger check your sentences.

And that is it for today.

I hope you're proud of your sentences using the conjunction and.

Next time you're doing some writing, sneak it in there and your teacher or other will be very, very impressed with you.

In lesson five, we are going to be doing a reading lesson and practise summarising what we have read.

So I'll see you then.

Spider fact time.

Today's spider fact is about the biggest spider in the world.

The Goliath birdeater spider.

Wonder if you can guess why it's called that.

How big do you think Goliath birdeater spiders can grow to? Think about the spiders that you mostly see maybe in the bath or crawling around outside.

Goliath birdeaters are a bit bigger.

How big do you think they can grow? Have a sensible guess and I will tell you at the start of lesson five, bye.